Definitions for foetus

foetus foe·tus

Spelling: [fee-tuh s]
IPA: /ˈfi təs/

Foetus is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 82 anagrams from letters in foetus (efostu).

Definitions for foetus

noun

  1. fetus.
  2. (used chiefly of viviparous mammals) the young of an animal in the womb or egg, especially in the later stages of development when the body structures are in the recognizable form of its kind, in humans after the end of the second month of gestation.

Origin of foetus

1350-1400; Middle English Latin fētus bringing forth of young, hence that which is born, offspring, young still in the womb, equivalent to fē- (v. base attested in L only in noun derivatives,

Examples for foetus

Sabetti held that the foetus is a materially unjust aggressor.

When an omphalosite exists, the other foetus is called, in this case also, the autosite.

No; the foetus is an individual not acting in self-defence, it is merely growing.

By the end of the eighth month the foetus has thickened out.

In some cases the malleus of the foetus differs strikingly from that of the adult.

On the relative weights of the right and left sides of the body in the foetus.

If the foetus goes on growing in this case, we have an abdominal pregnancy.

He can not first examine the foetus and then stop the hemorrhage.

The extrauterine foetus is not like a foetus in a craniotomy case.

Such an extrusion of the foetus is called a complete tubal abortion.

Word Value for foetus
Scrable

9

Words with friends

10

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